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Ubuntu 13.04 Will Enable Wayland Support In GTK+

Phoronix: Ubuntu 13.04 Will Enable Wayland Support In GTK+

While Canonical developers previously said they "won't fix" GTK+ support for Wayland in Ubuntu, the matter has now changed. It looks like Ubuntu 13.04 will be able to handle GTK+ applications on Wayland...

I believe that ideally, major changes on the stack, such as the move to wayland should come on LTS+1 releases, in order to have 3 whole releases to sort out the main bugs. I know this news does not mean ubuntu is moving to wayland on 13.04, and that is what I find puzzling.

Either there will be wayland introduction on 13.10, or, since is is most probably not going to be introduced on the LTS itself, 14.04 will still be a Xorg release. However, 14.04 is touted as the phone/tablet/tv release, and to do that, specially the TV part (due to all the tearing) on top of Xorg seems like a lackluster.

Either there will be wayland introduction on 13.10, or, since is is most probably not going to be introduced on the LTS itself, 14.04 will still be a Xorg release.

You're reading too much into this. We've been trying to get the wayland backend of the gtk package enabled for a while. It's just happening now because we finally figured out the way to make it happen.

Originally Posted by uid313

I hope they update the Wayland package in 13.04 raring, because it is still at old 0.95 in the repository.

Huh, that is odd. I saw libwayland0 was up to 1.0.2, and assumed that weston came along with it. But you're right, it's still 0.95.

You're reading too much into this. We've been trying to get the wayland backend of the gtk package enabled for a while. It's just happening now because we finally figured out the way to make it happen.

And what does it mean actually. Those who have compatiple drivers will be able to run GTK+ apps on wayland itself on 13.04, unity maybe?

Isn't the main problem that Wayland is now supported only by GTK+ and Intel drivers? And by informations from here there won't be any support in binary blobs any soon...

Main problem with what? It also works with the radeon and nvidia (nouveau) open source drivers. Wayland / weston also works with X clients, but that capability still isn't upstream, so doesn't look like it will be in ubuntu any time soon.

Originally Posted by Figueiredo

And what does it mean actually. Those who have compatiple drivers will be able to run GTK+ apps on wayland itself on 13.04, unity maybe?

Could be. Depending on how they deal with the libxkbcommon dependency that was just brought up in the relevant bug, and the incompatible wayland and weston versions in raring which uid313 mentioned.